Paid "Ad-Free" YouTube Premium Is Now Showing Ads
https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/26/paid-ad-free-youtube-premium-is-now-showing-ads
I pay for YouTube Premium because -- among other things -- I don't
want to see ads on videos.
But at least through the popular YouTube Roku app, YouTube is now
continuously displaying BUY SEASON ads for some video program clips
(complete with purchase price) in a blue box on the video control
YouTube Roku app "watch pages" -- and even worse, for a period of time
(around 10 seconds) as a corner ad box overlay on the running videos
themselves. The blue box ad is also present whenever you return to the
watch page (e.g., by pausing the video), and the overlay ad appears
for the same interval every time you begin running the video again.
The overlay ad in particular is extremely annoying.
These ads are also present as a box on the regular web-based YouTube
watch pages for these clips -- where they are less obtrusive but still
are ads on an ostensibly ad-free service.
YouTube Premium is promoted as a paid, ad-free service. The presence
of these ads on Premium accounts (especially when overlaid on top of
running videos -- whether limited to Roku devices or ultimately
deployed through other display devices as well) is not acceptable.
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